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What's New
Nov 1, 2012 - Alleged Bible Contradictions updated
Jun 28 - The Letter to Galatians
Apr 17 - Authorship and Date of III John
Apr 17 - Authorship and Date of II John
Apr 15 - Authorship and Date of I John
Apr 14 - Authorship and Date of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Apr 12 - Authenticity of 1 Peter
Apr 12 - Authenticity of Jude
Apr 12 - Authenticity of 2 Peter
History of Biblical Studies
The menu on the left has topics in mainly early Christian history
ranging from the nature of the early church to historical investigations
into the epistles and letters of the New Testament regarding authorship
and date.
In 1845 F.C. Baur published his Paulus, der Apostel Jesu Christi, sein Leben und Wirken, seine Briefe und seine Lehre
which is roughly the beginning of today's historical investigation into
the New Testament. Although there were such attempts prior to Baur,
such as Reimarus' reconstruction of the historical Jesus, their
methodology was deeply flawed. Ultimately, it was realized that Baur's
historical reconstructions were flawed too, with ideas about early
Christianity superimposed over the texts when the evidences went against
such. However, his research marked the beginning of the modern
historical method regarding the New Testament.
Baur's ideas ultimately became a trend followed by many other German
scholars, and this type of criticism tradition became known as the
Tübingen School. In Baur's book, he placed all of the Pauline epistles
as inauthentic, accepting only Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians,
and Romans, and Revelation as being by St. John. In these four Pauline
epistles, known as the Hauptbriefe Baur saw the problem of the
split between the Jewish Church and Pauline Christianity reflected. The
Tübingen School's ideas had lasting influence throughout the 19th
century, which ended by the late 19th/early 20th century, due to the
realization that it held views about early Christianity which were too
narrow, specifically seeing the need to see the split between Jewish and
Pauline Christianity in any work written at the time.
Although many of the Tübingen School's ideas were abandoned, its
influence lingered into the 20th century in the tendency to place most
of the writings of the New Testament as inauthentic and toward the end
of the 1st century.
In any case, here is an up-to-date analysis of arguments regarding different positions on various topics.
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